Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further revolution that has not yet taken hold widely in Japan is that of networking personal computers and word processors , and one American working for a large Japanese company in Tokyo complained to Reuter of hours spent every day hunting down paper documents written on dedicated word processors and then stuffing them laboriously into facsimile machines — when an efficient personal computer network could save all the effort . |
| 2 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 3 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 4 | He 's been sitting on the bench for the last hour and has never once taken his eyes off the shop . |
| 5 | Oddly , she had never shown much interest in touring in West Germany — perhaps she was scared to go that close to the border — and had not even taken out a West German passport , to which she was automatically entitled . |
| 6 | Charles Caldecott , who owned the Whetstone Park Stud , was an odd character whom Kelly had met a couple of times and had never really taken to . |
| 7 | Laba , who was later to become one of our shipmates , had been a fruit farmer and had only recently taken up sailing on the advice of the local shaman after a string of close calls with pythons . |
| 8 | So if group captain White has already given you an example of the reduction we 've made in in some of our er scalings of those equipment , er it was also suggested by the contractors that economies could be achieved by reducing the number of bases , the extent to which all squadrons should be fully multi role equipped and by contractualising more of the second and third line support , erm , we and the other partners are still considering these proposals in detail er and have n't actually taken decisions yet but there are certainly some possibilities in that area for er economies against the original cost estimate . |
| 9 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 10 | The Securities and Investments Board put out a fact sheet to help any remaining investors who have grounds for complaint about their home income schemes but have so far taken no action . |